Winona State University is primarily an undergraduate university, the oldest of the schools that constitute Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU). It is not part of the University of Minnesota, the state's land grant institution. Founded in 1858 to train teachers, today it offers over 80 undergraduate majors and 10 pre-professional programs. Enrollment for the year 2003 was 8,236 students. It has several masters programs, most relating to education, but no doctoral programs. The main campus is in Winona, Minnesota and there is a branch campus in Rochester, Minnesota (WSU Rochester Center). Pre-professional programs include medicine, law, and dentistry. Its pre-medical program operates in conjunction with Mayo Medical School, affiliated with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester.
Winona State University is currently in the process of implementing a program dubbed the "Learning for the 21st Century Initiative". Previously it was called "The Winona Experience", which generated some controversy, and before that "The New University". This radical series of changes in University operation and structure seeks to better the vocational-education experience of each student.
Programs
Accounting, Art, Business Administration, Coaching, Communication, Communication Arts, Early Childhood Education, Economics, Education, Engineering, English, Finance, French, Geography, German, Global Studies, Health, History, Human Resource Management, Management Information Systems, Marketing, Mass Communication, Mathematics, Music, Nursing, Physical Education, Political Science, Psychology, Science, Sciences, Social Studies, Sociology, Spanish, Special Education, Theatre Arts
Campus type
Normal
Carnegie
Master's Colleges and Universities
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